Joe Majka, CSO for VeriFone, explains the benefits of a multilayered approach to cardholder data security including end-to-end encryption and how it can help your merchant clients protect their businesses and their reputations.

A report from Global Knowledge highlights the top-paying IT certifications. IT security, networking, and systems management are at the top of the certification pay scale, while business-related certifications are still holding their own on this year's list. The rankings are based on the 2015 IT Skills and Salary Survey conducted by Global Knowledge and Windows IT Pro in the fall of 2014.

Organization, technology, and metrics are the top three ways retailers plan to stay competitive, according to the study by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Demandware, “Digitizing the Store -- Building the Business Case for a Unified Commerce Platform --Optimize the Consumer Experience.”

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Most IT solutions providers offer some type of backup and business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) solution. According to CompTIA’s Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Overview, it’s a natural extension of their other offerings.

Joe Majka, CSO for VeriFone, explains the benefits of a multilayered approach to cardholder data security including end-to-end encryption and how it can help your merchant clients protect their businesses and their reputations.

Q: How do I develop a true leadership team? Coach: In our previous discussion on leadership teams, we examined how a diverse team enhances your ability to come up with innovative ideas or to solve complex problems. Just to recap, issues generally have three dimensions: tactical (task), relational (people) and systemic (big picture).

2015 came in with a bang—with name changes and acquisitions, our own INSPIRE® event and other industry conferences. There is a lot of activity and momentum right now, and if the first two months of the year are any indicator, we are in for an exciting year!

As businesses, services, laws, and regulations change, so must our transactional documents regulating the relationship with the end user. Many Resellers have found that the use of a Master Agreement, setting out terms and conditions applying to all their transactions, coupled with separate Order Forms, Statements of Work, License Terms, and/or Service, Support or Maintenance Agreements is a preferred approach. If you have added a product or service or simply have not tweaked your transactional documents in three or more years, it is time to take action.

The second day of INSPIRE® education with Chip Heath shifted gears a bit: to change management. Using his book, Switch: How to Change When Change is Hard as the day’s text, Heath opened his presentation by challenging the crowd to think about change itself.

Chip Heath shared these alarming factoids on decision-making in his first workshop at INSPIRE® 2015 on Monday, January 26. In walking the group through the principles of his best-selling book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, these statistics (and a few others) solicited head shaking, hesitant chuckles, and even a few gasps.

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APG’s NetPRO® interface will be a compelling aspect of your m-POS application. Available with Ethernet, wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth, this cash drawer communicates with retailer’s mobile POS devices for cash drawer control. Concerned about security in today’s mobile world? NetPRO® cash drawers offer Biometric and bar-code claiming for local protection. Worried about keeping an eye on the checkout?

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